New old photos

I’m still working through and editing a pile of old files. In the past few weeks I’ve added over 30 images of a mix of subjects, displaying wild turkey gobblers, nesting spur-winged plover, a kea trying to eat a car, a juvenile house mouse I found wandering around in a beech forest, and even a […]

Website overhaul

You may have noticed I haven’t uploaded any new photos for few weeks. One of the main reasons is that I have been rebuilding the website, basically from scratch. Yes, it looks a lot like the old one, but there have been some big changes and upgrades behind it. The main aim has been to […]

Break the rules

There are lots of photography ‘rules’ regularly parroted, as if breaking one would have the flashing lights of the photo police soon appearing in your viewfinder. Golden hour light directly over your shoulder, head angle three degrees toward you, remember the rule of thirds or it’ll be a night in the cell for you! To […]

New shorebird photos

Curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) at a high tide roost on the Manukau Harbour. More than a dozen new photos of shorebirds have been added to my gallery. I managed to get close to a mixed flock of birds at a high tide roost and got some nice portraits of sharp-tailed sandpiper, red-necked stint, and curlew […]